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Garrigues advises Caixa Catalunya sale to Mapfre |
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Garrigues has advised Caixa Catalunya, Spain’s fifth largest savings bank, on the €556.8m sale of half of its insurance business to leading Spanish insurer Mapfre. |
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Baião Castro & Associados signs Brazilian alliance |
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Mar/Apr 2010 |
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Portuguese corporate and commercial boutique Baião Castro & Associados (BCS Advogados) and Brazilian firm Lotti e Araújo have agreed to establish an alliance intended to enable each to extend their international reach. |
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Uría Menéndez and Perez-Llorca advise on Ence rights issue |
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Mar/Apr 2010 |
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Uría Menendez has advised forest management and biomass company Grupo Ence on a €130m rights issue – the first share placing on the Spanish stock Exchange this year. |
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Nicea Abogados puts the emphasis on flexibility |
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Mar/Apr 2010 |
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A new ten-lawyer multidisciplinary boutique, Nicea Abogados, has opened in Madrid established by senior lawyers from DLA Piper, Eversheds Lupicinio and Zabía Abogados, that is looking to compete directly with the topfirms in the market. |
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Spain remains in EU State aid spotlight |
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Mar/Apr 2010 |
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The imminent arrival of Joaquín Almunia as the new EC Competition Commissioner, replacing Nellie Kroes, may well prompt a change in approach on the issues of antitrust damages, provision of due process for companies under investigation by regulators and relaxation of State aid rules, say competition lawyers. |
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Spanish airlines still experiencing Turbulence |
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Mar/Apr 2010 |
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A difficult 2009 has lead to insolvencies across the sector but some bright spots remain |
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Iberian offshore wind energy wins leaving manufacturers in the doldrums |
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Mar/Apr 2010 |
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Energy companies now looking out to sea while producers are left stranded |
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Capital markets lawyers helping corporates’ dash for cash |
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Bond issuances at record highs as companies continue to restructure debt
European company treasurers, facing record debt
maturities in 2011, are aware that governments will also be
making record amounts of sovereign issues in 2010. Many
have therefore been anxious to take advantage of the
current historically low interest rates, say lawyers. |
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Spain's free to air TV channels rushing to consolidate |
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Controversial levy on media operators signals dramatic market changes to come |
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Iberia's pharmaceutical IP practitioners seeking new medicine |
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Loss of patent exclusivity leads brands to seek new blockbusters and law firms to find clients
Eight of the world's top ten selling brand-name
medicines, with combined annual revenues of €32bn will
lose their patented status during the next five years.
Unsurprisingly, manufacturers of generic equivalents are
looking to produce their own versions of blockbuster
drugs like Lipitor (Pfizer's anti-cholesterol product),
Zyprexa (Eli Lilly's treatment for schizophrenia), Seretide
(GlaxoSmithKline's asthma control) and Diovan
(Novartis' high-blood pressure treatment). What
happens globally inevitably impacts Iberia. |
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Iberian Managing Partners making way for new blood |
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Movement indicating subtle changes in direction as firms respond to the crisis
2009 may be remembered as both the most difficult year the
Iberian legal sector has ever had to face and for the
upheaval seen in the management of many of its leading
law firms - to a certain extent the two seem connected. |
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External lawyers face less fee pressure for higher value advice |
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European In-House College 2010 addresses challenges of leading an in-house legal teamHow to organise an in-house legal team and add more value to the business was the challenge for participants attending this year´s European In-House College, held in February in Madrid. |
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